Six million copies of Lion downloaded so far — 80 percent more than Snow Leopard

Tim Cook, CEO has taken the stage at todays Apple event and is discussing the latest Apple OS Lion and its amazing growth as compared to its previous OS, Snow Leopard. Already, Lion has had Six million downloads, and that’s 80% more than Snow Leopard thus far.

Regarding Lion’s place in the market, he mentions Apple competitor Microsoft:

For another metric, we measure adoption. If you look at Windows 7, it took them about 20 weeks to reach 10% of their base. It took Lion 2 weeks.